Self-driving vehicle start-up Gatik focuses on overlooked ‘middle-mile delivery’
‘The whole idea is let’s get close to the customer. Let’s shrink that delivery window’
20 June 2020 - 08:00
Skillman — For a self-driving vehicle start-up, Gatik has an odd mantra: don’t agonise over autonomy, worry about delivery.
Specifically, the three-year-old company is focused on so-called middle-mile delivery, the oft-overlooked leg between when, say, a sweater is trucked across the country and when it is ferried over the last few miles and dropped on someone’s porch. For three years now, Gatik has been strapping sensors all over vans and small trucks and moving groceries from large distribution centres to small warehouses, albeit with a human backup driver aboard...
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